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Roger Ebert flips out over Baraka Bluray

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Baraka will be released on Bluray Oct 28th. As if I was not excited enough already....

Roger Ebert:

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If man sends another Voyager to the distant stars and it can carry only one film on board, that film might be "Baraka." It uses no language, so needs no translation. It speaks in magnificent images, natural sounds, and music both composed and discovered. It regards our planet and the life upon it. It stands outside of historical time. To another race, it would communicate: This is what you would see if you came here. Of course this will all long since have disappeared when the spacecraft is discovered.

The film was photographed over 14 months by director Ron Fricke, who invented a time-lapse camera system to use for it. In 1992, it was the first film since 1970 to be photographed in Todd-AO, a 65mm system, and in 2008, it seems to have been the last. The restored 2008 Blu-ray DVD is the finest video disc I have ever viewed or ever imagined. It was made from the Todd-AO print, which was digitally restored to a perfection arguably superior to the original film. It is the first 8K resolution video ever made of a 65mm film, on the world's only scanner capable of it. It is comparable to what is perceptible to the human eye, the restorers say. "Baraka" by itself is sufficient reason to acquire a Blu-ray player.

Full article:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081015/REVIEWS08/810150290/1023
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BTW, kind of a noob question here: I have a Dell PC laptop that is about a year old. It plays 720p okay, but often struggles with 1080p. (The screen's max res is 1080p.)

If I buy a Bluray drive for it, does the Bluray drive do all the number-crunching and send a signal to the laptop that it can play, or will my CPU and video card still be taxed to their limits trying to play Blurays @ 1080?

Sorry if this is a really stupid question. I would love to be able to play Blurays on that baby when I'm out in the field.
 
AFAIK, it will tax the components. But I'm not sure, I don't own one yet.

If it's one year old, it should be fine, I guess?

Is it a dual-core?
 
I mean, my guess is that it is simply sending the 1080p video stream to the computer, and then it's up to the laptop to display the thing.
 
I guess it just sends the data stream and then the PC has to decode and display it. I don't believe the BluRay would decode by itself, unless it's some special kind or a standalone unit.
 
Tom said:
I mean, my guess is that it is simply sending the 1080p video stream to the computer, and then it's up to the laptop to display the thing.
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Edited my post above.

I guess not, I think it takes some processing that regular players have inside and drives use the CPU to do this.

However PureVideo may help you on playback.

karapetkov said:
I guess it just sends the data stream and then the PC has to decode and display it. I don't believe the BluRay would decode by itself, unless it's some special kind or a standalone unit.
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What he said...
 
There are probably some tweaks you can do to improve the playback, but I don't know what they are. :umm:

I experience 720p and 1080p movies in a... nontraditional way. :) and haven't had the chance to playback a real BluRay...

There could be some open-source players and\or codecs which could make it faster.

Maybe something from here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/

But I don't know what's the procedure for real BluRays.
 
i really don't want to spend money for a new laptop, but it looks like i might be headed in that direction. shooting red and 5dm2 dslr footage will be too much for my current laptop anyway. one thing that sucks about laptops is that i don't think they are easy to upgrade. with a desktop, you can put in a new motherboard and CPU, new faster RAM, massive amounts of new harddrives, etc, and rock on. but with laptops, i don't think you can easily upgrade the CPU. am i right?
 
karapetkov said:
There are probably some tweaks you can do to improve the playback, but I don't know what they are. :umm:

I experience 720p and 1080p movies in a... nontraditional way. :) and haven't had the chance to playback a real BluRay...
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Hahaha. trust me, that's how I watch them, too. :wink:
 
Tom said:
i really don't want to spend money for a new laptop, but it looks like i might be headed in that direction. shooting red and 5dm2 dslr footage will be too much for my current laptop anyway. one thing that sucks about laptops is that i don't think they are easy to upgrade. with a desktop, you can put in a new motherboard and CPU, new faster RAM, massive amounts of new harddrives, etc, and rock on. but with laptops, i don't think you can easily upgrade the CPU. am i right?
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I think so too. Maybe you can change the cpu, but not motherboard. And I have noticed that it's more expensive to upgrade a laptop.

Tom said:
Hahaha. trust me, that's how I watch them, too. :wink:
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Yeah, it's great. I see nothing wrong with that. :holloween:

720p versions are way superior to DVD versions. But sometime i can't see the difference between 720p and 1080p versions of the same movie. Maybe it's the scanning. :umm:
 
I'm really embarrassed that I've never even heard of this flick. I'm really looking forward to see it now.
 
The timelapse stuff that I do is often referred back to this movie, which is funny to me because I'm not sure I've seen this one. I've seen Koyaanisqatsi after I started doing my timelapse on my 20D and someone said that I had to see it. I've been trying to hold off on getting a Blu-Ray player for a while now. But I've been getting questioned by people asking when I'm going to release a Blu-Ray version of my stuff. "Baraka" might be my reason to get a PS3 or some other BR device.
 
Drew, I am thinking of hosting a timelapse and red one get together in the spring at Joshua Tree with some top astrophotographers and cinematographers. We're gonna watch this baby at 1080p in its full glory under the stars, with a big cooler full of beer. You might want to hold off and watch it under "optimal" circumstances, if you know what I mean. :wink:
 
Tom said:
Drew, I am thinking of hosting a timelapse and red one get together in the spring at Joshua Tree with some top astrophotographers and cinematographers. We're gonna watch this baby at 1080p in its full glory under the stars, with a big cooler full of beer. You might want to hold off and watch it under "optimal" circumstances, if you know what I mean. :wink:
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I'm catching your drift Tom. Just let me know when and where and I'll be there. How were you thinking about showing it?
 
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